Textile fragment with tendrils, leaves, and rosettes
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils, leaves, and rosettes
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, possibly block-printed with resist, mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
57 x 24.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 17 threads/cm (thread count) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.1043
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Catalogue text
The fragment of a large medallion, very similar to Cat. no. 1028 [EA1990.1035], is set against a blue and red background filled with white tendrils, leaves, and small rosettes. In addition there is a narrow, blue border band with a row of red and white rosettes.
The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface.In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)
Further reading
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), no. 1036 on p. 308 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 308 fig. 1036
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